4 Ways to Avoid the Next Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack
May 2022 marked the first anniversary of the largest publicly disclosed cyberattack against critical infrastructure in the U.S.—the attack on the Colonial Pipeline. The devastating attack served as a cautionary tale of ...
Colonial Pipeline One Year Later: Are Critical Infrastructure Operators More Secure?
Earlier this month marked the one-year anniversary of the largest cyber-attack on US critical infrastructure. In May 2021, DarkSide cyber actors successfully targeted Colonial Pipeline with a ransomware attack that shut down ...
New APT Group Mimic Colonial Pipeline Attackers, Others
Government servers and Russian energy and aviation industries seem to be the primary targets of a new advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has attacked organizations in 10 countries, using the supply ...
Colonial Pipeline Hinted at Critical Infrastructure Threat
The long gas lines, panic buying and price spikes are fading into memory. But the ransomware attack in early May 2021 on the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S. must continue to ...
Breaking Down the Colonial Pipeline Cyber Attack
How did the recent Colonial Pipeline cyber attack happen? What could have been done to prevent it? A closer look at the most recent—and potentially most devastating—cyberattack ...
Virsec Analysis of the Colonial Pipeline Attack
The Colonial Pipeline attack on Saturday, May 5th, 2021 represents another in a series of advanced cyber threats, and one of the most serious incidents targeting supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) ...
Colonial Pipeline FAIL: Ransomware Gang Threatens Gas Supplies
The Colonial Pipeline is critical infrastructure—of that there’s no doubt. But ransomware scrotes have crippled it ...
Directives Issued After US Pipeline Ransomware Attack
In the wake of the terrible ransomware attack that targeted one of the most important fuel pipelines of the US, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has mandated additional cyber security measures ...
Pipeline Ransomware Shows Dangers of Unsecured Infrastructure
The ransomware attack against the Colonial Pipeline is the latest incident targeting critical infrastructure in the United States with severe potential in terms of business continuity and energy disruption. The May 7 ...
DarkSide Offered Ransomware-as-a-Service Before Pipeline Attack
Colonial Pipeline might be tight-lipped about the vulnerability hackers exploited to launch a ransomware attack that shut down the U.S.’s largest pipeline, but details are emerging about the DarkSide ransomware variant behind ...
